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You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good
Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer:
Weird random floating fragments of text that are obviously the disemboweled remnants of some cut and paste action.
Only 8 entries in the [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Research, Science, Writing Tagged Computing, conference, evolutionary computation, GECCO, genetic programming, Research, reviewing, Writing Comments closed
If only Dickens were around to write the novel
Photograph from Portfolio.com, courtesy of: Free Press
From yesterday in Portfolio.com:
How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators?
Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday—and effectively keep some [...]
And I slept through the whole thing
Apparently we had an earthquake here in the UK last night around 1am, and Sub-Evil and I snoozed through the whole thing! WeatherGirl, however, was still up and reports on the not-exactly-harrowing experience, complete with links to other sources of info.
This is the second earthquake she’s experienced and I haven’t. (I was in [...]
It seems that the “why” makes all the difference
In “Is language extinction a good thing?” Thomas Hawks reviews some recent writing on language extinction, focusing on differing attitudes to the question of how “bad” it really is when a language goes extinct.
Languages are clearly fluid, dynamic things, and statistically we’re going to lose some along the way. In this age of massive [...]
Man, that’s gonna stink (and probably while I’m there)
This is what Naples has become through a combination of mismanagement and a complete lack of any sort of recycling system. (Apparently GreenPeace came in and set up a demonstration recycling system in one neighborhood had showed that over 70% of the trash there could be recycled if people would just get it together.)
And [...]
The things you learn on the Tube
After a long day of being cultural and scientific in London with Kildegaards a few weeks ago, we got on the Tube back to Liverpool Street and the train back to Colchester. Looking across into the next car on the Underground, I was surprised to learn that a volcano was expected to erupt in [...]
Posted in Events, Family, Mildly amusing, Photography, Travels Tagged Friends, London, London Underground, my photography, news, public transport, Sabbatical Comments closed
It’s worth 10 minutes of your time
And the day after I get around to posting this, he announces that he’s not running after all. Sigh. The reasons he gives in his new video are clear and convincing, however, and there’s always the possibility that he might run in the future when the notice is not so short.
It’s probably old [...]
Posted in Events, Politics Tagged change, Change Congress, culture, economics, elections, future, law, Lawrence Lessig, Politics, school board, Video Comments closed
As long as it’s not me we’re talking about
Sorry for two xkcd comics in three posts, but I can’t tell you how many times things in my life haven’t been attended to because someone was a dufus on-line.
Hey – look! There’s a windmill right over there! Tilting! Tilting! Tilting!
Tags: internet, on-line communities, productivity
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3.1415927 reasons to tune in to KUMM (on- or off-line)
They have a fancy new redesigned web site.
You can check out cool photos like the one above in their new gallery.
They have the schedule on-line so you know who you’re listening to!
They’re way cooler than the lame radio station that those other people are listening to.
You know you want to listen to a station where [...]
Posted in Education, Music, Photography, Radio Tagged Education, KUMM, Music, Radio, Sabbatical, students, University of Minnesota Morris Comments closed
JOCP! At revision 400!